Weird Things

AT: Podcasts Near Me

Weird Things ·

2023/10/29

A Thai restaurant tried to game Google, but accidentally went viral. We knew Google paid Apple a lot to be the default search engine. We didn’t know it was *a lot.* The Humane AI Pin? Send your project questions/ideas to neshcom@gmail.com, subject line “After Things.” Picks: Justin: Space: 1969 from Bill Oakley Brian: Play Date

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WT: Might As Well Be Cooking On The Sun

Weird Things ·

2023/10/28

The episode opens with a discussion of SharkNinja's Ninja Neverstick cookware and a lawsuit over marketing claims that the pans are heated to 30,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The hosts debate whether the claim is literal or exaggerated advertising, compare it to other flashy marketing language, and talk through how a deceptive-marketing class action might work if consumers were misled. Later, the hosts discuss Apple possibly retiring the iTunes name, reflecting on how iTunes shifted from CD-ripping and

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AT: From the Top!

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2023/10/22

Phone wars, flame wars, nearly-warring podcasters! The simple task of geopolitics. Send your project questions/ideas to neshcom@gmail.com, subject line “After Things.” Picks: Andrew: Curiosity Show on YouTube and “This Isn’t a Ponzi Scheme” from Coffeezilla Brian: The Economist Podcasts+ Bryce: Kagi Search

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WT: Bones Like a Space Bird

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2023/10/21

The episode opens with Andrew quizzing the others about an extinct goat from Mallorca and revealing that the animal was a mammal that had evolved extremely unusual cold-blooded traits on an island with limited resources and no predators. The hosts then dig into the evolutionary tradeoffs between cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals, mention the naked mole rat as another unusual mammal, and riff on speculative science fiction ideas about humans adapting to space travel and microgravity. A long

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WT: Throw a Tiger at Space (w/ Andrew Heaton)

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2023/09/23

The episode opens with the hosts joking about UFOs, ghosts, and why those topics feel politically safer or socially easier to discuss than religion or partisan issues. That leads into a playful moon-landing conspiracy riff, followed by a discussion of an F-35 pilot ejecting and the confusing aftermath of a missing aircraft and a farmer calling 911. From there the conversation moves into space, life, and AI: Europa's carbon detection and the possibility of independently evolved alien life, panspermia

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AT: Embrace the Future

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2023/09/17

Andrew announced that he’s leaving OpenAI after a very positive experience! What’s next for him after years of being in the AI space. What will his new venture, Interdimensional.ai, offer to bridge the gap between ideas and new AI technologies? Send your project questions/ideas to neshcom@gmail.com, subject line “After Things.” Picks: Andrew: Joker Justin: The Afterparty Bryce: Interdimensional.ai

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WT: Psuedo-Fed

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2023/09/16

The episode opens with a discussion of a NASA UAP research appointment and quickly becomes a skeptical conversation about UFO evidence. The hosts argue that many reports are based on shaky, secondhand, or artifact-prone imagery, and that if aliens or unexplained craft were being captured reliably, the evidence would be much stronger than a few headlines or low-quality clips. A large middle section covers the Mexico alien-body story, which the hosts conclude appears to be a hoax or paper-mache-style

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AT: The Products of Data

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2023/09/10

iPhones, can you believe they’ve made 15 of them so far? Smartphones and how we own them have changed multiple times now. What could be next in the next, best iPhone? Send your project questions/ideas to neshcom@gmail.com, subject line “After Things.” Picks: Andrew: Paul Reubens, The Pee-Wee Herman Show Justin: March to the Majority from Newt Gingrich Brian: The Diamond Age from Neal Stephenson Bryce: finity.

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WT: Oceanic Enrichment Time

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2023/09/09

The episode opens with a long discussion of Reza Belucci, a Florida man who attempted multiple ocean crossings in improvised human-powered contraptions, including a hamster-wheel-like vessel and later a buoy-based setup aimed at London. The hosts debate the Coast Guard's intervention, whether he was in legitimate danger, how jurisdiction works offshore, and whether his stunt reflects reckless behavior or a stubbornly American spirit of self-determination. The conversation then pivots to a NOAA

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AT: Vintage Data

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2023/08/20

There’s actually too much to watch now. Can a 20-year-old book give us a sign on the next steps of online media? Send your project questions/ideas to neshcom@gmail.com, subject line “After Things.” Picks: The Long Tail from Chris Anderson and FREE from Chris Anderson

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WT: Flappy Bear Back

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2023/08/19

The episode opens with a discussion of a viral Chinese zoo story in which sun bears were mistaken by some viewers for people in costumes. The hosts joke about the bears' upright posture and sagging skin making them look suspiciously human, but they ultimately treat them as real bears with odd anatomy rather than a hoax. Later, the conversation moves through LK-99 and the speed of scientific debunking, a broader discussion of pessimism about progress, then several space-and-Moon topics including the

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AT: It Was a One-Of-A-Kind

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2023/08/06

We can see our boundaries of “The Internet” fading and being lost to time. What does permanence in data mean? Send your project questions/ideas to neshcom@gmail.com, subject line “After Things.” Picks: Justin: Audio Hijack Brian: Airplane II: The Sequel Bryce: Paste

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WT: eDumper Breaks The Internet

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2023/08/05

The episode opens with a long discussion of LK-99, the South Korean room-temperature superconductor claim. The hosts explain why superconductors would matter for power transmission, motors, microprocessors, and other electrical systems, then compare the situation to cold fusion and stress that the central question is whether the result can be replicated consistently. They discuss the reported magnet behavior, note that tiny samples and experimental error make the evidence hard to interpret, and

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AT: Rolling Around

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2023/07/30

Bryce talks out a new idea for LFG Marbles: a patron race series with changes to appeal to live and video-on-demand viewers. What are the stakes? What are the comps? Send your project questions/ideas to neshcom@gmail.com, subject line “After Things.”

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WT: Lionless in Kleinmachnow

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2023/07/29

The episode opens with discussion of a false emergency alert in Kleinmachnow outside Berlin about a supposed lioness. The hosts explain that police initially reacted to dark video and public reports, but later concluded the animals were wild boars, and they use the story to talk about misidentification, pattern recognition, and social contagion in sightings. The middle of the episode turns to a study on rhesus macaques in Puerto Rico. The hosts discuss reported same-sex behavior, a small heritable

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AT: Rosetta Ravings

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2023/07/23

Artificial intelligence? P’shaw! Give me artificial languages! What could you do with an artificial or minimal language to benefit humanity? Send your project questions/ideas to neshcom@gmail.com, subject line “After Things.” Picks: Andrew: Mini Language on Medium Bryce: Things app

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WT: Universe Manifest Destiny?

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2023/07/22

Andrew opens by talking about how he uses ChatGPT and related tools throughout his work and daily life, arguing that AI is already accelerating coding, research, and other tasks. From there the conversation expands into a speculative case that widespread AI, more abundant intelligence, cheaper manufacturing, and improved energy systems could make a much more expansive future possible, including Starfleet-like space development, orbital habitats, and terraforming. The discussion then turns to the

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AT: PublisherBot w/ Dr. Daniel Simons

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2023/07/16

A casual extra chat with Dr. Daniel Simons about diagnosticians, expertise information, and Andrew’s blockbuster formula to make best-selling book. Send your project questions/ideas to neshcom@gmail.com, subject line “After Things.” Be sure to check out Dr. Simons’s “Nobody’s Fool”

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WT: Never Fooled w/ Dr. Daniel Simons

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2023/07/15

The episode is a conversation with Dan Simons about his book Nobody's Fool and the general ways people get deceived. The discussion moves through examples from chess cheating, fraudulent research data, social media sharing, and everyday scams to show how suspicious regularity, incentives, and expectation bias can hide deception or honest mistakes. Evidence includes the chess tournament anecdote, the odometer study fraud case, and the repeated emphasis on truth bias and confirmation bias (L33-L34,

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AT: Money Hose Off!

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2023/07/09

Streaming has taken a new turn the past few years, but it likely won’t be an extension of the early-COVID explosive growth and spending. Netflix is now an old dog and things like Jury Duty are taking way more cultural cache than The Rings of Power. Send your project questions/ideas to neshcom@gmail.com, subject line “After Things.” Picks: Andrew: Kindle Scribe Justin: Detroiters Brian: The Righteous Gemstones Bryce: Pocket City 2

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